Improvement in sun-stroke preventers



W. M. PEG RAM.

Sunst roke-Prevent ers.

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No. 129,749. Pateflt ed July 23, 1-872.

UNI E STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. PEGRAM, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.,

IMPROVEMENT IN SUN-STROKE PREVENTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,749, dated July 23,1872.

- Specification describing a Sun-Stroke Preventer, invented by WM. M.PEGRAM, of Baltimore, in the countyof Baltimore and State of Maryland.

The nature of my invention is fully represented in the accompanyingdrawing, to which reference is made.

A represents a metal ring one-sixth of an inch wide, one-twenty-fourthof an inch thick,

, andfive inches in diameter, to which two pieces of one-fourth-inchelastic, B B, are attached by means of copper rivets (l O G G, theelastic being connected at the point of crossing by copper rivet C. E Erepresent punctured holes to beused in attachingthe,preventer? in theposition designed for it. F represents a secptionof sponge.

The whole drawing represents the sunstroke preventer as ready for use,and its operation is as follows: Attach the metal ring A, with theelastic bands B B secured thereto by means stated above, to the crown ofthe hat, using the punctured holes E E, through which it must be sewedto the crown. I use a circular piece of oil-silk, rubber cloth, or theirequivalents, to be inserted between the meta-1 ring A and the crown ofthe hat. This will perfect the device by protecting the crownfrom theaction of the water in the sponge F, which is wet and inserted under theelastic bands B B, which completes the fixture. The sponge can beremoved at will, and wet as often as the wearer may desire.

This will prove an unfailing preventive to sun-stroke; and my littleinvention of the fixture with the sponge combined has been pronounced byphysicians as the simplest and best invention for the purpose "designedever seen. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-- A device for preventing sun-stroke as a new article ofmanufacture-the metal ring A, elastic bands B, sponge F, and piece ofoil-silk,

rubber cloth, or their equivalents, arranged and combined as shown anddescribed.

WM. M. PEGRAM.

Witnesses T. B. MACKALL, J. P. MOELDERRY.

